MoreOn comments on Outside the Laboratory - Less Wrong

63 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 21 January 2007 03:46AM

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Comment author: Manfred 18 December 2010 06:28:37AM *  1 point [-]

(although...)

AAaand the graph gives me a coughing fit. Good job.

Comment author: MoreOn 18 December 2010 06:34:40AM *  2 points [-]

Oh, trust me, I wouldn't defend this one.

Some profs showed it as an example of a utility function for which gambling would make sense, rationally. I'd say if your utility function looks like this, you have problems far worse than gambling.